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6 weeks ago My PCP was the one to recommend WLS and refer me to my surgeon. My PCP had already seen me for 3 months prior to the referral, so that left only 3 months more of dr monitored weigh ins. With a bit of phone work and scheduling magic, everything fell in line beautifully with my nutritionist, cardiologist, pulmonologist, and psychologist. I've officially received clearance for all of those requirements.

What hit me this morning was that I only have 2 months of PCP weigh ins to focus on and so far in the past 6 weeks have lost 30 pounds on my dr monitored diet and exercise program.

I had gone into the diet with a personal goal to lose a total of 18-28 pounds before surgery. Now I have a personal goal to lose a total of 60. When I changed my goal, I realized that all of this weight loss talk could actually be real! I can make a life change and still feel like "me". I can believe that my body will actually lose weight and surgery will work if it only has 123# more to lose (instead of 180 that it would have had). I am now excited to try to lose more weight before surgery because it gives me hope FOR the surgery. My PCP and husband are the only people who know about this and my PCP says how excited she is every time she sees my name on her calendar because she looks forward to how much more weight I've lost. Her hugs and high 5s at each visit is Such motivation!

Anyway, all of this to say that after all these years of being identified as "morbidly obese", "super obese" and the like, I finally have hope for a lighter future. It's an amazing feeling!

Just a bit of a success story to go along with your other research.

HW 328

CW 298

Surgery Date TBD

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Nice post and very encouraging. It's my hope that the pre diet meal plan will allow me to loss enjoy weight to not follow through with WLS. I just started this journey. I've attened the intro class. I'm scheduled to attend orientation class on 4/27. You have given me hope that the pre op diet plan is actually working. Congrats to you and keep up the good work.

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